Santa Rita is the patron saint of impossible causes. It’s also the name of a super-PAC that’s spent more than $300,000 helping Ron Paul. While the long-shot Republican presidential candidate hasn’t given up — he’s pledged to continue right on...

That’s how many U.S. home foreclosures there were in January, according to RealtyTrac Foreclosure Report. That’s about 1 in 624 households nationwide that are in some stage of foreclosure. While it’s come down 19 percent from a year ago, the...

That’s how much the Romney campaign has raised from the securities and investment industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Sometimes faulted on the trail for his close ties to the industry as a former private-equity executive at Bain...

That’s the number of negative ads that a committee independently aiding Mitt Romney had aired in Ohio as of yesterday, according to data from New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising. The group, Restore Our Future, aired 2,121 ads...

The Michigan county where Mitt Romney grew up almost covered his statewide margin of victory in the Feb. 28 presidential primary. Romney won Oakland County, a suburban area near Detroit, by 31,565 votes, nearly matching the 31,976 margin by which he defeated Rick...

Just four senators — two who are retiring and two who are facing re-election this year — bucked their parties on a vote today that failed to cancel a contraception rule from President Barack Obama’s administration. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican...